Leave what’s heavy behind

First off… wishing you a wonderful, safe, fun, joy-filled end to 2016!

I can’t wait to see what magic 2017 brings for you!

Secondly…

The other day I was driving to an event where I was speaking, and was listening to Spotify's "Relax and Unwind" channel to prepare for it.

A song came on that wasn’t just musically beautiful, the lyrics also seemed to perfectly capture what that evening was all about...

I think it’s a PERFECT inspiration for 2017, for what our #1 biggest goal or resolution could be…

Listen to it and read the lyrics (and my comments on them) below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G593C0Tc934

Lyrics with my comments in brackets

VERSE 1
If you're lost and you're lonely
Go and figure out why

[don’t just accept that pain, find out why it’s there]

Take a trip to your dark side
Go on and have a good cry

[Step 1 in Tapping: LOOK at the negative, the pain, the truth.  Acknowledge it, have a good cry!]

Cause we're all lonely
Yeah we're all lonely
Together

[We tend think we’re the only ones facing these challenges]

I want to see your sadness
I want to share your sins
I want to bleed your blood and
I want to be let in

[It’s in being vulnerable that we heal ourselves, our relationships, our life]

Don't you just,
Don't we all just
Want to be together

[We sure do]

CHORUS
Leave what's heavy,
What's heavy behind
Leave what's heavy,
What's heavy behind

[That’s exactly what we do when we tap… We leave what’s heavy behind]

VERSE 2
If your face is down
Take a look around
Do your fingers move
Do your lungs inflate
Are you tired are you weary
Of the hidden hate
You've been holding
Yeah

[I see that “hidden hate” as old anger we haven’t fully let go of]

Did you lose that love
Or have you never had it
Are you feeling sad
because you did a bad thing

[A lost love, a love unfilled, sadness from past things you’ve done that you’re still holding on to...]

CHORUS
Leave what's heavy,
What's heavy behind
Leave what's heavy,
What's heavy behind

[It’s time to leave it behind, my friend…]

BRIDGE
Are you feeling fearful brother
Are you feeling fearful sister
The only way to loose
That fearful feeling
Replace it with love that's healing
Are you feeling fearful brother
Are you feeling fearful sister

[Replace fear with love.  We start tapping on the negative, then it magically opens up to the positive, the love]

CHORUS
Leave what's heavy,
What's heavy behind
Leave what's heavy,
What's heavy behind
Leave what's heavy,
What's heavy behind

Leave what's heavy,
What's heavy behind

[Yup, it’s time to leave it behind…]

Bookmark this page and listen to this song whenever you need a reminder to let go!  Or buy and download the song to support these beautiful artists.

What did this song bring up for you?  Comment below!  Are you ready to leave what’s heavy behind in 2017? 

The blog post Leave what’s heavy behind was originally published on: The Tapping Solution

The Tapping World Summit 2017

Wow!  I can't believe that 2017 marks our 9th annual Tapping World Summit!

It seems like yesterday that The Tapping Solution launched its first one...

And we're excited about making 2017 the BEST Tapping World Summit ever!

They just get better every year. ;)

You know what makes our Tapping World Summits so popular?  It's because for 10 days out of the year, we bring in some of the TOP MINDS in the fields of EFT and personal development to guide you towards improving nearly every area of your life!

And it's all FREE!

Emotional Freedom Technique is clinically proven to provide relief from stress, anxiety, chronic pain, emotional problems, disorders, addictions, phobias, post traumatic stress disorder, and physical diseases.  Tapping is also a very effective tool for attracting abundance, manifesting, healing relationships, and attaining inner peace.

If you are asking yourself, "What is EFT Tapping?" or "How can one technique do so much?" you need to check out our page on what is EFT Tapping and how you can start using it.

What Is the Tapping World Summit 2017?

February 27th, 2017 - March 8th, 2017

The Tapping World Summit 2017 is a Virtual Online Event presented by The Tapping Solution, and hosted by myself and my sister Jessica.

This incredible online event is about providing you with a better understanding of Tapping, while expanding your consciousness to new levels in the areas of emotional freedom, physical health, abundance, overcoming mental barriers, and relief from traumas that you may be trying to let go of.

Over 1 million people have attended the previous eight Tapping World Summits, with attendance growing each year, and reaching over 600,000 just last year alone!

The event itself will run for 10 consecutive days between Monday, February 27th through Wednesday, March 8th featuring two 100% content only presentations every night.

These sessions are available for ONLY 24 HOURS for free after their initial broadcast.

The reason I structure the event this way is because I want everyone to be able to access this information, regardless of time zone or financial ability.

It's all available for FREE with the option to purchase the recorded event sessions for you to listen to and Tap along with as many times as you want.

I've got to tell you, some of these sessions from our Tapping World Summits are SO powerful, that I listen to some of them over 10 times!  They really are that good!

How to Register for the 2017 Tapping World Summit

Registration for the 2017 Tapping World Summit opens on February 6th, 2017.

If you’d like to receive early notification through our mailing list, you can easily subscribe in the "Do you like this article?" section below, and get the first two chapters of The Tapping Solution book for FREE!

Tapping World Summit 2017 Pre-launch Content

Every year, I like to release free videos & audios leading up to the Tapping World Summit because it gives you a tiny glimpse into the awesomeness that awaits you inside the full 10-day Summit.

Here is the schedule for this year's Tapping World Summit pre-launch.  Enjoy and please share!

9th Annual Tapping World Summit 2017 Schedule

Coming soon!

Stay tuned as we finalize our amazing presenter list!

Until next time...

Keep Tapping!

Nick Ortner

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The Tapping World Summit 2017 is a 10-day Virtual Online Event presented by The Tapping Solution, and hosted by New York Times bestselling authors, Nick Ortner and his sister Jessica Ortner.

The post The Tapping World Summit 2017 was originally published on: The Tapping Solution Blog

There are FOUR things that you might just be able to let go of this holiday season…

And if you do...

Oh boy... it's going to be a good one.  But if you don't...well, it might be a little tricky.  :)

1.  Your need to be right.  People are guaranteed to annoy, upset or bother you.  It’s likely because of something they do or say that you think, at some level is “wrong”.  Let go of that need and watch your happiness expand.

How this plays out in real life:  Love them before anything else.  And then love them again and again. And then they’ll say something else that annoys you, and then love them even more.

2.  Your need to fix those you love.  It comes from a beautiful, loving, empathic place, but it doesn’t help anyone.  This does not mean you can’t care, educate, inspire or otherwise look to move the people you love from where they are to where you can imagine them being.

 

But that’s the difference, IMAGINE their greatness first, don't look at everything that’s wrong and try to fix them.  (I mean, has that strategy EVER worked…)

 

How this plays out in real life:  Imagine those you love as you know they can be.  Imagine their greatness, their healing, their peace.  Watch them transform and perhaps most importantly, watch your relationship with them transform.

3.  Your need to be perfect.  Just as we try to fix others, we believe that as we strive for “perfection” we will “fix” ourselves.  First off, you’re never going to be perfect.  That’s guaranteed.

 

Second, there’s nothing to fix.

 

You are exactly where you are supposed to be and your striving for more, for a better version of yourself is how it will always be.  The striving is good.  The beating yourself up is not.

 

How this plays out in real life:  You are going to do or not do, say or not say something and you’re going to hear your brain beating you up a bit…in that moment, that’s when you have to love yourself just like you love those people that annoy you.

 

I know, it’s kind of a running theme here, the whole lotta love thing, but people, it works.  Try it and tell me otherwise. So love yourself and remind yourself, “Hey, you’re doing the best you can, a little slack and a little love please!”

 

4.  Your old fear, guilt or shame, anger or blame, sadness or pain.  OLD is the operative word here.  Chances are you’ve been carrying this and other negative emotions around for a long time.  Chances are also that you’ve buried them deep because guess what, they’re not fun to feel.

 

I get that.

 

It’s a good strategy to bury them deep when there is no other alternative, but now there is.   Use a tool (EFT Tapping is my favorite of course), to safely unearth those old emotions and let them go once and for all.

How this plays out in real life: We often run too fast to feel anything.  And we think we’re too busy to do anything about these old emotions.  But guess what, they’re the ones actually running the show and draining you of your life force.

 

Truly, every negative emotion or event that is still active, that still has a “charge” is sapping your mental, physical and spiritual energy.  Pay attention to where these emotions might be lurking, and coax them out, and then let them go.

 

Even if it’s just ONE a day, or one a week, or one a month, start feeling safe feeling them and feeling safe letting them go.

Before you go…

The holidays can often go two ways.

They can be a time of love and connection, peace and hope, joy and laughter or they can be busy and rushed, they can magnify all the old pains and hurts we’ve felt with our families, all the places we haven’t healed can feel raw and wounded.
Now, just as we aren’t perfect, these two ways doesn’t mean it’s all one or the other.  We just want to keep tipping the scales to the former.  We just want to keep doing the work so love and connection shine.  So peace and hope spring forth.  So joy and laughter bubbles out of us.

And here’s the thing…you know the most magical moment that you can create during this holiday season?

 

You know the moment in time that I want you to look out for?
The place where…if you pay close enough attention to yourself and to what is happening around you…

 

Everything can change…What is that moment?

It’s when you find yourself feeling “right” and angry, annoyed or indignant…

 

It’s when you notice you’re trying to “fix” them and you can’t stop seeing everything you wish they would change…

 

It’s when you’re beating yourself up for not being perfect, and then beating yourself up even more because I expressively told you not to… (lol)

 

It’s when you’re starting to feel that old fear, guilt or shame, anger or blame, sadness or pain…

 

That moment in time when you notice what is happening and you PAUSE.

And you tap.  Or you breathe.  Or you just silently say to yourself, “How interesting.  Look where I was going…but now I’m making a different choice.”

And you love them more. And you let go.
And you love yourself more.  And you let go.
In that moment.  That space that you found, that space that you notice.

More and more love.  And more and more letting go.

And with that love you usher all the pain away.  You usher all those old patterns away.

Shoo, shoo! Only love here my friends, only love.

Happy Holidays everyone, wishing you LOVE LOVE LOVE.

Comment below: Which of the four things do you most want to let go of? :)

The following article There are FOUR things that you might just be able to let go of this holiday season… is republished from: The Tapping Solution

A Taste of My Own Medicine (How Gratitude Can Change Your Life)

Read this post if...

You fall into the trap of thinking everyone else has it all figured out (especially the “experts") and you’re the only one who can’t seem to get it right!

I had to laugh at myself the other day…

In the midst of editing my next book, “The Tapping Solution for Manifesting Your Greatest Self” (Fall 2017), I was… shall we say… a bit stressed.

I felt overwhelmed, rushed, just too much to do and not enough time to do it.  I had to get this editing done, and we were in the midst of launching my brother Alex’s new (amazing) kids book which was exciting but taking a lot of work.

I was tired from a live event I had held just a few days earlier for my local community of Newtown, CT., an amazing evening where we came together to tap and heal.  I could feel the pressure of so much to do, so many projects, so many people to help, so much creative energy to unleash… and it was just a bit much.

And of course, I was editing a book about the importance of releasing the stress response...  About how to bring our deepest resources back online.  About how we manifest our greatest self not by being miserable, and pushing and striving and stressing but by letting go, being present, being grateful, and releasing these old patterns.

But…

Umm...

I wasn’t following my own advice.  It’s funny isn’t it?  Stressing out while editing a chapter about not stressing?  Lol!  Yes, I am profoundly human.

But… in that moment, I said to myself, as you’ve probably often said to yourself, “This isn’t working” and “What if I did something different?  What if there was a better way?”

Fortunately, that better way was literally at my fingertips...

It was both within the text of what I was editing and within the magic of Tapping.

The particular chapter or “day” (it’s a 21 day process), I was working on was on gratitude and how we each respond to success differently.  I’m sure the idea of gratitude and its importance isn’t new to you as a concept, but if you’re not using it consistently, well... then it doesn’t do any good!

So I paused, recognized I wanted to have a different experience of life and approach, and I used the tapping within the chapter itself.

I took the time to actually CELEBRATE the amazing things that were happening, as opposed to rushing on to the next thing.

I tapped in celebration of launching a kids book that I truly think will change lives around the world (we’re already getting incredible feedback from it).  I took the time to really FEEL the love and beauty behind the Newtown event - the years of work that led up to that and the continued dedication to a mission of healing.

I looked at my bookshelf, which is lined with Tapping Solution books (including over 30 foreign translations which are just the coolest thing ever) and really, almost for the first time, took in the joy and magic of it.

There is beauty ALL around you.

There is success ALL around you.

There is love ALL around you.

But you have to stop to notice it.  And then you have to stop again to notice it.  And then again.

Because that’s where the magic of life lives.  That’s where the miracles unfold, from that state of gratitude, from that place of joy.

To help you do that today, here’s an excerpt from what I’ve been working on.  It’ll be a little out of context because it’s not the whole chapter, but I pulled the tapping section out so you could do some tapping now.  If you’re new to Tapping, learn the basics here.

I hope you enjoy it and use it to SAVOR your amazing life!

Savoring The Smaller Wins

When you think back on recent days, what everyday “wins” have you had?

For starters you’re on day 5 of this book.

That’s a win unto itself! (Please accept my virtual congratulations and big hug for making it this far!)

You’re also probably not climbing Mount Everest, which means you’re far less likely to suffer frostbite. (reference to earlier in the chapter!)

Win #2!

Really think about what good has happened in your life.

Have you tapped today?  That’s a win.

Did you go to bed earlier and wake up feeling more rested?  Great!

Were you calmer than usual when you got stuck in traffic?  Well done.

Were you more patient with your children, spouse, or co-worker?  Impressive.

Think back on the last few days or week, and notice any and all victories.

Either on paper or in your mind, list three of those wins now:

My 1st win is _______________

My 2nd win is _______________

My 3rd win is _______________

With your list in mind, we’re going to do some positive tapping.

Positive tapping is a powerful way to train your brain and body to notice those everyday wins in your life, and feel the positive emotion they can generate.

To start, focus on your list of wins, and notice how much positive emotion you feel.

Give that positive emotion a number on a scale of 0 - 10, with 10 being the most positive  (joyful or grateful, excited, etc.) that you can imagine feeling.

With positive tapping, instead of lowering stress, the goal is to elevate positive emotion.  This means that your goal is to INCREASE you SUDS number, which is the number of intensity scale.

For example, if your joy begins at a 3 out of 10, you goal with positive tapping is to make the number go up, perhaps to a 5 out of 10, or 8 out of 10.

So let’s get started!

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Take three deep breaths.

We’ll begin by tapping three times on the Karate Chop point.

KC (Repeat three times): Even though I forgot to notice the good in my life, I can see it now and let myself feel joy and gratitude.

Eyebrow: I [insert win #1]
Side of Eye: It feels good to notice!
Under Eye: I also [insert win #2]
Under Nose: It feel good to notice this, too!
Under Mouth: I also [insert win #3]
Collarbone: It feels great to notice all of this!
Under Arm: It’s safe to feel good about this
Top of Head: It feels weird to celebrate these little wins

Eyebrow: I forget to notice them most of the time
Side of Eye: I can see them now
Under Eye: I can see that they resulted from positive choices
Under Nose: I can start noticing these everyday wins more often
Under Mouth: And let myself celebrate each one
Collarbone: I can feel more joy more often
Under Arm: I can stop and feel gratitude for these everyday victories
Top of Head: Even though they seem small and meaningless sometimes

Eyebrow: I can stop and notice them
Side of Eye: I can feel joy about them
Under Eye: I can give them the meaning they deserve
Under Nose: It’s safe to feel this joy more often
Under Mouth: It’s safe to notice these little things
Collarbone: It’s safe to value these everyday wins
Under Arm: Letting myself feel joy now
Top of Head: Feeling joy and gratitude now

Take a deep breath.  Give your positive emotion a number on a scale of 0 - 10.  Keep tapping until you get the desired effect.

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Tapping Tip: If at any point, you struggle to feel genuine positive emotion from positive tapping, you may need to release something negative first, before positive tapping can feel authentic.

If that happens, pause your positive tapping and do a few rounds of tapping while asking yourself questions like:

Why can’t I feel good about these everyday wins?

What is holding me back from feeling more joy about them?

Once you have a clearer sense of why positive tapping isn’t resonating, tap on releasing the negative emotion, limiting belief and/or event that’s distracting you.  Then, when that negative charge has gone down and you are ready, return to positive tapping.

Comment: What came up for you in this Tapping?  How important is gratitude in your life?

The blog post A Taste of My Own Medicine (How Gratitude Can Change Your Life) was first seen on: The Tapping Solution

Tapping Meditation for Morning Clearing with Jessica Ortner

6 mins and 51 seconds.

Is that enough time to completely transform your day?

Is that enough time to shift your energy, to release stress and anxiety, and to draw in new, positive energy into your life?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X4FIDPXOVM

Find out if that is enough by pressing the play button above.  In this video, you’ll find a free, short morning Tapping Meditation.

(AND there is no better time to do this then during this often busy and hectic holiday season!)

Here’s the deal: You can either keep powering through your day, running the same patterns over and over and getting the same results, or you can find the space, the presence, and the guidance to try something different.

Those who use this morning meditation regularly, report a whole new experience of life.

Life actually changes when WE change. 

Now it’s your turn.  Press the play button above!

Until next time...

Keep Tapping!

How do you feel after listening to that Tapping Meditation for morning clearing?  Please leave me your comments below! :)

Tapping Meditation for Morning Clearing with Jessica Ortner is republished from: The Tapping Solution Blog

An Evening of Healing and Transformation

Two weeks ago, I held a free event here in my hometown of Newtown, Connecticut: “An Evening of Healing and Transformation”.

You might know that Newtown was the site of the Sandy Hook school shootings back in 2012, and what prompted us to form The Tapping Solution Foundation in order to provide stress and trauma relief to the local community.

In a beautiful local theatre that seats 500 people (where I used to watch $2 movies when I was growing up!), we gathered to talk, tap, and find ways to heal.

I've been trying to write about the evening to tell you about what happened, but some experiences are so complex, so full of mystical meaning and hope, that they’re hard to put into words.

So I’ll just say this...

It was magical.  It was healing.  It filled me with the knowing that within darkness, light ALWAYS shines.

Here are a few pictures from that night...

[caption id="attachment_5682" align="alignnone" width="550"] Edmond Town Hall - The most beautiful setting for this amazing event[/caption]

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[caption id="attachment_5686" align="alignnone" width="550"] So neat to see “The Tapping Solution” name where they normally show what movie is playing that night![/caption]

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[caption id="attachment_5687" align="alignnone" width="550"] Welcome![/caption]

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[caption id="attachment_5688" align="alignnone" width="550"] Chatting and Tapping with some members from the audience[/caption]

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[caption id="attachment_5690" align="alignnone" width="550"] The view from the top![/caption]

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[caption id="attachment_5689" align="alignnone" width="550"] My brother Alex, and dear friend Erin Mariano (the illustrator), signing “Gorilla Thumps and Bear Hugs” our new Tapping Solution kids book. Everyone who attended received a free copy of the book and we’re already seeing it being used with kids.[/caption]

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[caption id="attachment_5691" align="alignnone" width="550"] Love wins![/caption]

Until next time...

Keep Tapping!

The following post An Evening of Healing and Transformation is available on: The Tapping Solution's Blog

Make yourself happy by doing this one thing…

Have you ever heard the phrase "Money can't buy you happiness"?

Well, new research is in fact showing that it actually can make you happy… but only if you spend it in a certain way.

I think you'll find this fascinating...

Check out this short Ted talk where Michael Norton describes the research and how it could help make YOU happy during this holiday season, just by doing one important thing:

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Project Light: From Rwanda to Newtown - A Journey of Hope, Healing, and Possibility

If you’ve been with us for a little while, you might know about the work we’ve been supporting in Rwanda for the past several years, helping genocide survivors through the use of Tapping.

You might also know that I live in Newtown, Connecticut, the site of the Sandy Hook school shootings, and started The Tapping Solution Foundation in order to provide stress and trauma relief to the local community.

The work we’ve been doing on the ground here has been profound, extremely well received, and effective!

And some of the many miracles that have happened, not only here in Newtown but around the world, are simply breathtaking.

Especially the powerful connection between Rwanda and Newtown, the levels of healing that have occurred, and the possibilities for the future.

To show you the power of Tapping in transforming ourselves and the world, we're showing a powerful documentary film for free entitled:

Project Light: From Rwanda to Newtown - A Journey of Hope, Healing, and Possibility

I think this film will help show you what's possible in your life when you use Tapping...

Here’s why I think it’s so important for you to view this movie, and I urge you to share it with everyone you know:

• It will give you profound hope about humanity and its potential for the future.

• If you’ve faced any trauma in your life, big or small, it will explain much of what its effect has been, and how you can heal it.

• It’s guaranteed to make you laugh and cry, sometimes both at the same time! :)

Through the Tapping Solution Foundation, we’re also doing some fundraising during the holidays.

If you donate any amount of money (even a dollar!) I’ll gift you a $97 package of 10 Tapping Meditations!

100% of your donation will be used to fund Trauma Relief and Resiliency Projects, helping to expand our reach and impact to as many people in need as possible.

Your tax-deductible donation will help us continue our work by promoting the healing effects of EFT Tapping to those in need around the world.

Give the gift of hope and healing this holiday season!

Until next time...

Keep Tapping!

Make yourself happy by doing this one thing… is courtesy of: The Tapping Solution's Blog

You’re like Voodoo… (But good Voodoo!)

“You’re like Voodoo... but good Voodoo!”

That’s what Rebecca, who lost her son Chase in the Sandy Hook school shootings, said to me just a few weeks ago.

In our continuing work in my hometown of Newtown, CT, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and working with Rebecca over the past few months.

And every time we get together, she’s shocked at just how well Tapping works, and how strange it is that it’s so powerful (thus the Voodoo!).

The weight, fear, sadness, and stress lift right off of her shoulders.

I asked her to tell me more about her experiences, and here’s what she said...

“I couldn't be more thrilled with my experience tapping. Tapping takes the mean girl in my head and makes her quiet, I feel more in control. 

I am new to Tapping and I don't fully understand how it works, but I can tell you 100% it calms the feelings of self-doubt and insecurities I have.  I can walk into a session a hot mess full of tears and walk out feeling confident, feeling stronger, and feeling like I can do what I need to do to help myself feel good about me again. 

I leave the negative behind, and I love that I am able to love and accept myself for who I am and for how I choose to evolve into the new and better me.

We lost our son Chase four years ago, and I thought I had dealt with his tragic death.  What I didn't realize, it was just buried and compartmentalized.  So Nick took me back to that day and we were able to release a lot of the feelings that had been hiding. 

I will forever be thankful to Nick for releasing that day, and for helping me move forward and conquer other issues that have been buried for decades.“

The work here continues, and it's expanding in beautiful ways!

If you’d like to learn more about it, I invite you to view a film we made, in collaboration with my friend Dr. Lori Leyden, titled:

Project Light: From Rwanda To Newtown – A Journey Of Hope, Healing, and Possibility

We're streaming the film for FREE!

You can view it here or press the play button on the image below.

We’re also doing some fundraising during this holiday time period.

If you donate any amount of money (even a dollar!) I’ll gift you a $97 package of 10 Tapping Meditations!

December 14th is the fourth anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting, and our commitment to help this town heal continues on a daily basis.

In fact, I’m finding that more and more people are coming to us at this point, once they realize the traditional solutions just simply aren’t cutting it.

I’ll be sure to keep you updated as the work progresses, and you can also learn more about the Foundation itself and its life-changing efforts by going here.

Until next time...

Keep Tapping!

You’re like Voodoo… (But good Voodoo!) is republished from: http://www.tappingsolution.com/

Managing Parental Overwhelm – Free Tapping Meditation

You might remember all of the proud posts and blogs about when I became a father for the first time a while back. :)

June Everly Ortner was born on May 16, 2015.

I remember when she was in a snugly baby holder on my chest, fast asleep, as I walked on a standup treadmill desk writing blog posts.  It was the BEST!

Of course, she wasn't always peacefully sleeping... and the first five weeks were definitely a huge adjustment!

It was a wonderful one, but sometimes we all can face overwhelm as parents.

If you or someone you love is struggling with these feelings of overwhelm as a new (or even a seasoned!) parent, I've created a free tapping meditation for you just on this topic.

If you're feeling overwhelmed from all of life's responsibilities that come with being a parent, take a few minutes to tap along with me as I guide you through this Tapping Meditation for Releasing the Feeling of Parenting Overwhelm.

http://ts-podcasts.s3.amazonaws.com/Final/TheTappingSolution-Tapping-Meditation-Parental-Overwhlem-Nick-Ortner.mp3

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What did you think of the Tapping Meditation?  What shifted for you as you listened through it?  Please leave me your comments below.

Managing Parental Overwhelm – Free Tapping Meditation is available on: The Tapping Solution Blog

3 of the Most Powerful Words You Can Say to Yourself

"I forgive myself."

Try saying these words out loud now (or silently to yourself if you don’t want your co-workers to think you’re a little nuts - LOL!)

"I forgive myself."

How does it feel when you say that?  What comes up?  Does a specific memory or event come forward?

Or maybe just generalized anxiety about LIFE, about what has gone wrong, about what you’ve judged yourself about for way too long?

One of the most powerful parts of the Tapping process is the setup phrase, “Even though [fill in the blank with the problem], I love, accept, and forgive myself.”

There is such POWER in acknowledging how you feel... and loving, accepting, and forgiving yourself for it.

But it’s not always easy.  I get it.  There are layers upon layers of guilt and shame that have built up (consciously and unconsciously) for years.

It’s my belief that to truly transform your life, you have to peel those layers back, let go, and discover the bright, shining, abundant, joyful energy underneath it all.

To help you get started today, I’ve pulled out a short and powerful Tapping Meditation from our 2014 Tapping World Summit.  It’s normally part of a $197 package, but it’s my gift for you today.

Listen to the Tapping Meditation to Support You in Forgiving Yourself below!

http://2014-tws-audios.s3.amazonaws.com/final/download/iyanla-vanzant-forgiveness-meditation-LQ.mp3

Get the Tapping Meditation Transcript Here

This is a general meditation to get you started, but as you tap, see if you can focus on one event, idea, memory, or belief for which you haven’t forgiven yourself.

Focus on it, give it a number on a 0-10 scale, and then check back in after these 10 minutes or so of Tapping.

How do you feel after listening to this Tapping Meditation?  Did a specific memory come to mind?  Perhaps a person whom you may have hurt in the past, or an unresolved event?  Please leave me your comments below!

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